Online Privacy Management

Abstract

A privacy management system (PMS) is disclosed for a Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) or other user to use in monitoring and/or controlling in realtime the flow of data (e.g., outflow) about the user and his/her online experience. The PMS may provide a dashboard displaying a whitelist and/or blacklist indicating what destinations/sources are blocked or allowed. The PMS includes browser-client scripting code and may also include a PMS-certified verification icon for display on webpages being monitored/controlled in realtime by the PMS.

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[0001]This application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 61 / 428,560 (Attorney Docket No. 007662.00005), filed Dec. 30, 2010, including its concurrently-filed appendices; all of the aforementioned is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]Aspects of the disclosure generally relate to management, regulation, control, and / or auditing of analytics and other data to be collected from a user's terminal. In particular, various aspects of the disclosure discuss features of an online privacy management system.BACKGROUND[0003]Web pages are generally written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). They are written using HTML elements that include “tags” surrounded by angle brackets; information in the tag tells the web browser how to interpret the HTML element (e.g., as text, for insertion of an image into the webpage, for running a script, etc.). These tags can, among other things, include or can load scripts in languages such as JavaScript...

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Benefits of technology

[0009]Aspects of the disclosure address one or more of the issues mentioned above by disclosing methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for an online privacy management system and related systems. In one example, a system may assist in managing, regulating, controlling, and/or auditing of transmission of collected data (e.g., web

Problems solved by technology

When a marketer assigned to manage web analytics for an organization decides that she wants to change the code/tagging to measure and analyze different features, the process is often tedious and challenging.

Since the marketer is generally not skilled in how to perform these modifications, she must interface with her information technology (IT) department or other similar agency.

Sometimes, even the IT department may not adequately understand the syntax of the web analytics program instructions to properly modify the code, especially given that the myriad web analytics vendors, advertisers, surv

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